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Bayes ' theorem was named after the Reverend Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 61 ), who studied how to compute a distribution for the probability parameter of a binomial distribution ( in modern terminology ).

His friend Richard Price edited and presented this work in 1763, after Bayes ' death, as An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances.

The French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace reproduced and extended Bayes ' results in 1774, apparently quite unaware of Bayes ' work.

Stephen Stigler suggested in 1983 that Bayes ' theorem was discovered by Nicholas Saunderson some time before Bayes.

However, this interpretation has been disputed.